Venezuela’s gas lines of 700– there’s your socialism, folks

Venezuela, over the weekend, saw gas lines that stretched to 700-plus vehicles.

There’s your socialism, folks. The socialism the left in America so loves to tout.

The left gets away with pretending as if socialism is good for the people by selling lies.

In 2011, the self-declared socialist-slash-democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders had a post on his Senate website that read, “These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in … Venezuela,” land of income equality.

Right. The deceptions continue today — even as the long gas lines in Venezuela get longer.

Here’s one, courtesy of an NBC News headline: “In oil-rich Venezuela, residents deal with long gas lines as U.S. sanctions have an effect.”

And yet one more, from Yahoo: “Venezuela’s crisis is not the result of socialism.” That piece goes on to advance the usual Big Government Lover line that falling oil prices combined with unsustainable debt and a corrupt government brought about the country’s collapse.

That piece goes on to advance one of the left’s biggest pro-socialism arguments — that true socialism has never been tried, and Venezuela is not an example of true socialism.

Yada, yada.

Smart people know that if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck. And when there’s a government that reaches for massive power, and snatches from the individual the ability to freely profit from one’s own endeavors and calls for redistribution of wealth — well then, that’s a socialist-style system.

That’s a socialist-style system that brings on a corrupted government, just the kind advanced by Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro.

“Myself,” she said in March, the Washington Examiner wrote, “just like anyone else, is absolutely concerned with the humanitarian crises that’s happening and I think it’s important that any solution we have centers the Venezuelan people and centers the democracy of the Venezuelan people first.”

There’s that leftist spin again — as if democracy and socialism are one and the same. (Though given today’s direction of the Democratic Party, maybe they are, in America.)

When will the left learn socialism never works, it always fails and continually breeds discontent and poverty and corruption among the people?

Answer: That’s a loaded question.

In the eyes of the left, socialism does indeed work. It hands the power of the people — the power of the individual — over to the lucky few elitists and globalists in government.

Socialism gives those who seek to control the feel-good, watery social justice message that’s needed to pilfer from the people, control and ultimately, rule.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.

You are an idiot troll and a demoncrap. Trump and the USA have nothing to do with Venezuela. But stupid demoncraps like yourself have everything to do with it and you all are going to fail in your attempts to socialize America. And maybe you all will even die trying when we get fed up and commence civil war against all of you, wiping you all out.

JB.. HOW IS Venesuela going down, a Failure on the UN?? OR do you think the UN should have swooped in and saved that country, from themselves???
IF SO< DOES THAT MEAN< ANY Country going down the tubes, like Venezuela has, should expect the UN to swoop in and take them over?

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DrGadget

5:18 am May 24, 2019 at 5:18 am

The UN is its own failure. That has nothing to do with Trump or Venezuela.

“When will the left learn socialism never works, it always fails & continually breeds discontent & poverty & corruption among the people?”

“If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate & control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool for power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.” Author Gary Allen

Socialists are always looking for a better and more fair way to distribute the wealth. And that’s why it can never work. Real wealth isn’t distributed, it’s amassed.

Have you ever seen dollar bills randomly appearing in open fields? Of course not. It doesn’t happen.

Someone has to work to create wealth. It is being amassed. Then a socialist shows up and wants to tax everyone. Once again, wealth is being amassed, this time for the govt. Takers file for Welfare and food stamps so they can amass some of that wealth.

Note that the socialists don’t distribute the wealth to the takers. The takers take that wealth from the socialists, but only in return for their loyalty. Otherwise socialists might accidentally distribute wealth to conservatives. That doesn’t happen because it’s not being distributed from the center. Takers are taking it from the center so they can amass it for themselves.

Nobody is going around handing out dollar bills on the street corners. This would be distribution. It doesn’t happen.

I know a lot of people, who believe everything that the TV and radio gives them. They never question, if it’s true or not. The newscasters, say the “truth” however how they say it, by comma’s or changing a noun or verb, giving the story another meaning. Why there are so many noTrumps, is because of the lies and half truths, that are given out in the news. Some people wonder how there are so many jobs and increased paychecks, but that Trump is a loser. Hopefully those will start questioning the so called facts can have their minds changed.

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